Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill
# Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill

The Women's Downhill competition of the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics was held at Kvitfjell on Saturday, 19 February.

The defending world champion was Kate Pace Lindsay of Canada, while Germany's Katja Seizinger was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the current season.

Seizinger won the gold medal, Picabo Street of the United States took the silver, and Isolde Kostner of Italy was the bronze medalist.

The course started at an elevation of 890 m (2,920 ft) above sea level with a vertical drop of 708 m (2,323 ft) and a course length of 2.641 km (1.64 mi). Seizinger's winning time was 95.93 seconds, yielding an average course speed of 99.110 km/h (61.6 mph), with an average vertical descent rate of 7.380 m/s (24.2 ft/s).

## Results

The race was started at 11:00 local time, (UTC +1). At the starting gate, the skies were clear, the temperature was −6.0 °C (21 °F), and the snow condition was hard; the temperature at the finish was lower, at −14.0 °C (7 °F).

| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 3 | Katja Seizinger | Germany | 1:35.93 | — |
| | 8 | Picabo Street | United States | 1:36.59 | +0.66 |
| | 12 | Isolde Kostner | Italy | 1:36.85 | +0.92 |
| 4 | 16 | Martina Ertl | Germany | 1:37.10 | +1.17 |
| 5 | 2 | Kate Pace Lindsay | Canada | 1:37.17 | +1.24 |
| 6 | 9 | Mélanie Suchet | France | 1:37.34 | +1.41 |
| 7 | 4 | Hilary Lindh | United States | 1:37.44 | +1.51 |
| 8 | 7 | Varvara Zelenskaya | Russia | 1:37.48 | +1.55 |
| 9 | 23 | Pernilla Wiberg | Sweden | 1:37.61 | +1.68 |
| 10 | 35 | Katja Koren | Slovenia | 1:37.69 | +1.76 |
| 11 | 17 | Jeanette Lunde | Norway | 1:37.80 | +1.87 |
| 12 | 1 | Miriam Vogt | Germany | 1:37.86 | +1.93 |
| 13 | 33 | Florence Masnada | France | 1:37.92 | +1.99 |
| 14 | 6 | Veronika Stallmaier | Austria | 1:37.94 | +2.01 |
| 14 | 31 | Morena Gallizio | Italy | 1:37.94 | +2.01 |
| 16 | 32 | Alenka Dovžan | Slovenia | 1:38.07 | +2.14 |
| 17 | 20 | Svetlana Gladysheva | Russia | 1:38.10 | +2.17 |
| 18 | 25 | Katrin Gutensohn | Germany | 1:38.14 | +2.21 |
| 19 | 11 | Kerrin Lee-Gartner | Canada | 1:38.22 | +2.29 |
| 20 | 29 | Megan Gerety | United States | 1:38.24 | +2.31 |
| 21 | 26 | Emi Kawabata | Japan | 1:38.29 | +2.36 |
| 22 | 14 | Heidi Zurbriggen | Switzerland | 1:38.46 | +2.53 |
| 23 | 37 | Špela Pretnar | Slovenia | 1:38.50 | +2.57 |
| 24 | 36 | Olga Vedyacheva | Kazakhstan | 1:38.58 | +2.65 |
| 25 | 19 | Barbara Merlin | Italy | 1:38.65 | +2.72 |
| 26 | 10 | Régine Cavagnoud | France | 1:38.69 | +2.76 |
| 27 | 27 | Krista Schmidinger | United States | 1:38.76 | +2.83 |
| 28 | 13 | Heidi Zeller-Bähler | Switzerland | 1:38.78 | +2.85 |
| 29 | 18 | Nathalie Bouvier | France | 1:38.85 | +2.92 |
| 30 | 30 | Michelle Ruthven | Canada | 1:38.88 | +2.95 |
| 31 | 5 | Anja Haas | Austria | 1:38.98 | +3.05 |
| 32 | 34 | Lucia Medzihradská | Slovakia | 1:39.22 | +3.29 |
| 33 | 28 | Vreni Schneider | Switzerland | 1:39.35 | +3.42 |
| 34 | 21 | Erika Hansson | Sweden | 1:39.40 | +3.47 |
| 35 | 39 | Nataliya Buga | Russia | 1:40.93 | +5.00 |
| 36 | 43 | Mihaela Fera | Romania | 1:41.07 | +5.14 |
| 37 | 40 | Olha Lohinova | Ukraine | 1:43.07 | +7.14 |
| 38 | 38 | Mira Golub | Russia | 1:43.21 | +7.28 |
| 39 | 44 | Szvetlana Keszthelyi | Hungary | 1:43.33 | +7.40 |
| 40 | 42 | Maria Zaruc | Romania | 1:45.73 | +9.80 |
| 41 | 48 | Francisca Steverlynck | Argentina | 1:46.76 | +10.83 |
| 42 | 46 | Khrystyna Podrushna | Ukraine | 1:46.96 | +11.03 |
| 43 | 45 | Gabriela Quijano | Argentina | 1:49.26 | +13.33 |
| 44 | 47 | Jennifer Taylor | Argentina | 1:49.53 | +13.60 |
| - | 15 | Bibiana Perez | Italy | DNF | - |
| - | 22 | Renate Götschl | Austria | DNF | - |
| - | 24 | Ingrid Stöckl | Austria | DNF | - |
| - | 41 | Véronique Dugailly | Belgium | DNF | - |

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